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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Directory vs. Folder? Post 302642029 by bakunin on Wednesday 16th of May 2012 11:37:59 PM
Old 05-17-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by methyl
Flashback to pre-unix on DEC kit. The CAT command used to display the catalogue (of files), then along came DCL with the DIR command.
True. These were the days, when the interesting stuff wouldn't reside in /usr or /etc but in $SYS$SYSTEM.

Ah, well - and then all hell broke loose and an upstart PC-botch-shop bought the producer of the best processor and the best working cluster in the world. Like Old Joes Garage purchasing Porsche along with its racing team division.

I use "directory" exclusively as i deal only with "file system entities". I simply have nothing to do with "GUI concepts", "metaphors" or other crutches for the technically impaired.

bakunin
 

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MEDCON(1)						      General Commands Manual							 MEDCON(1)

NAME
xmedcon - MedCon with GUI for the X Window System SYNOPSIS
xmedcon [options] [-f <file>] or xmedcon [--help | <file>] DESCRIPTION
XMedCon is an X-Windows graphical userinterface built around the MedCon library. The program is capable of reading grayscale (reconstructed) medical image formats with multiple images and is based on the amazing Gtk+ and Imlib libraries. For more help read the related HTML files which can be send to a Netscape Browser from within the program. For information about the possible MedCon options that can be set directly from the command-line type 'xmedcon --help' or read the man-page medcon(1). FILES
/usr/local/xmedcon/include Directory with header files. /usr/local/xmedcon/lib/ Directory with libraries. /usr/local/xmedcon/bin/ Directory with executables. /usr/local/xmedcon/man/ Directory with man-pages. /usr/local/xmedcon/etc/ Directory with rcfiles. SEE ALSO
medcon(1), xmedcon-config(1) m-acr(4), m-anlz(4), m-gif(4), m-inw(4), m-intf(4), m-ecat(4) medcon(3) AUTHOR
(X)MedCon project was originally written by Erik Nolf (eNlf) for the former PET-Centre at Ghent University (Belgium). e-mail: enlf-at-users.sourceforge.net www: http://xmedcon.sourceforge.net MEDCON(1)
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